My parents told me, "Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving." I tell my daughters, "Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job." ~Thomas L. Friedman
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ~Mason Cooley
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. ~E.F. Schumacher
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. ~Max Beerbohm, Mainly on the Air, 1946
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. ~George Eliot
It is not a fragrant world. ~Raymond Chandler
National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway. ~Tim May
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored. ~Daniel Webster
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are. ~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, translated
The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ~Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, 1963
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. ~Henry David Thoreau
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve. ~Andy Rooney
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. ~Author Unknown
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ~Henri Cartier Bresson
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from th
e talk. ~Mark Twain
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. ~Leonardo da Vinci
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. ~Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu, Pensees Diverses
I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. ~Oscar Wilde
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated